Common use of Shared Development Clause in Contracts

Shared Development. Shared development is meant to cover courses where: 1 - the online developer has reached their maximum number of sole developments, 2 – when a group of members is developing a course that will be shared during teaching (e.g. there are more sections that are routinely needed than one person could teach) or when a member develops a course where more sections are offered than can be covered by one member. Shared development developers must be trained before or during development. A. Development of shared development courses will be compensated $2000 per credit hour for development of the course to ensure that each Structured Instructional Activity is generic enough to be used by any future instructor. B. If a team of unit members wishes to collaborate on the development of a course, one member must be the lead developer elected by the group. Development of shared development courses will be compensated $1000 per credit hour for the lead developer and $500 per Credit Hour for collaborating team members (not to exceed 3 members per course) for development of the course to ensure that each SIA is generic enough to be used by any future instructor C. A shared development course will be pilot-tested for one semester by the developer or lead developer. The lead developer will be responsible for maintaining the master section of the course in the College’s LMS and will retain the right to assignment of at least one section of the course. All other developers will retain the right to assignment for one section of the course per semester in the future. If there are more developers than sections offered, the college will establish a rotating assignment schedule following contractual load assignment and contractual overload assignment priority